Antimacassar

//ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.

    "She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel."

  2. 2
    a piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils wordnet

Etymology

From anti- + macassar. Antimacassars were originally used to protect upholstery from being soiled by macassar oil in the sitter's hair.

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